Editing Gregory Bateson (section)

=== Bali===
[[File:Trance and Dance in Bali.webm|thumb|thumbtime=34|''[[Trance and Dance in Bali]]'', a documentary by Bateson and [[Margaret Mead]]]]
From March 1936 until February 1938, Bateson traveled to [[Bali]] with his new wife [[Margaret Mead]] to study the people of the village of Bajoeng Gede.<ref name="lipset1982"/>{{rp|151}} Here, Lipset states, "in the short history of [[ethnographic]] fieldwork, film was used both on a large scale and as the primary research tool."<ref name="lipset1982"/>{{rp|52}} Bateson took 25,000 photographs of their Balinese subjects.<ref name=" Harries-Jones 1995">{{cite book | author=Harries-Jones, Peter | title= A Recursive Vision: Ecological Understanding and Gregory Bateson | publisher=University of Toronto Press | year=1995}}</ref>{{rp|22}}

He discovered that the people of Bajoeng Gede raised their children very unlike children raised in Western societies. Instead of attention being paid to a child who was displaying a climax of emotion (love or anger), Balinese mothers would ignore them. Bateson notes, "The child responds to [a mother's] advances with either affection or temper, but the response falls into a vacuum. In Western cultures, such sequences lead to small climaxes of love or anger, but not so in Bali. At the moment when a child throws its arms around the mother's neck or bursts into tears, the mother's attention wanders".<ref name="lipset1982"/>{{rp|157}} This model of stimulation and refusal was also seen in other areas of the culture. Bateson later described the style of Balinese relations as stasis instead of schismogenesis.  Their interactions were "muted" and did not follow the schismogenetic process because they did not often escalate competition, dominance, or submission.<ref name="lipset1982"/>{{rp|158}}